Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1940 — Page 1
‘NM SCRIPPS ~ HOWARD
ZERO WEATHER REST OF WEEK OUTLOOK HERE
More Snow Tonight Also ‘Forecast as Nation Skids, Shivers.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m... 12 10 a. m.... Ta.m.... 13 11 a m.... 8a. m.... 13 12 (Noen). 9am... 13 1p m....
14 14 16 16
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Old Man Zero moved toward Indianapolis today for at least a three-day stay. The Weather Bureau predicted the “low tonight will be close to zero and that the Arctic-born cold wave will stay through Saturday. There will be snowflurries tonight. Last night Mother Nature spread a blanket of snow over the whole state, and today Indianapolis’ portion looked like a carbon copy. Thousands of chimneys rained hundreds of pounds of soot on it before dawn. Virtually the entire country was
held in winter's grip today. From the Texas Panhandle to middle Georgia, Southerners slipped and skidded to work in one of the most severe cold spells the South has endured in a decade.
Rivers Ice-gorged
In the East snowfalls up inches delayed traffic. In the Middle West temperatures dropped sharply and threatened to go even lower than the near-record depths of last week. An ominous note came fro Pitts-
to 81%
repetition of the disaster. A mountain storm at Riverside,
California - and a near-cloy drenched the southern part | state. Zero Due in Chicago
The Weather Bureau at W ton issued an advisory storm | warn-
ing for the Atlantic _ Coast from |g
“cape : | the Capital dug out of its h aviest snow since 1936. The new cold wave plunged the mercury to 16 below zero at Spirit Lawe, Towa: Casper, Wyo., reported "11 below and Kansas City two below. The temperature at St. Louis was eight above and dropping fast. Zero or below was forecast for Chicago tonight. In Kansas and Missouri the forecast for tomorrow is for temperatures ranging around 15 to 17 degrees below zero. Heavy frosts in the citrus fruit belt of southern Texas threatened serve damage to the 15-million-dol-lar crop. \
Trucks Clear Streets
Winter wvacationists in Florida reached for warm clothing as freezing temperatures struck the northern part of the state and colder weather was forecast. Temperatures ranged from 26 at Pensacola to 56 at Key West. Warned of the coming snow yesterday, the State Highway Department; moved trucks out with cinders and other treatments for slippery intersections. Today City Street _ Department trucks began collecting snow from streets. One and three-tenths inches of
snow have fallen since yesterday. Two men were treated at the City
Hospital last night for carbon monoxide poisoning after they were overcome while working on an automobile in a garage at 818 Grove St. Oscar Harris, 20, and Ray Rouse, 24, both of 1005 Fletcher Ave., told police the mctor of the car was running and only one door in the garage was open.
Injured in Falls
Five persons were taken to the City Hospital yesterday after they fell on the ice. Mrs. Mary Crossley, 64, of 519 S. Taft St., fell while crossing the "alley in the rear of 717 Massachusetts Ave. and injured her left hip. Mrs. Florence Payne, 39, of 608 S. Meridian St., slibped and fell while alighting from a bus at Merrill St. and Russell Ave. and received a possible fractured right ankle. While police were the accident in which Mrs. Payne was injured, Mrs. Evelyn Pearcy, 48, of 636 S. Illinois St., brought her 12-year-old son, Floyd, to the scene with a broken right arm he had received while skating in the street,
Hitch-Hiker Injured
Walter Thomas, 17, of 2309 Massachusetts Ave, was cut over the right eye when he fell while running across the street in front of his home. Mrs. Albert Weir, 28, of 2110 N. Alabama St., received a possible fracture of the left leg when she fell in the 300 block E. 21st St. A 19-year-old girl who-said she was hitch-hiking from Ft. Worth, . Tex., to Springfield, O., slipped and fell in the 2400 block W. Washington St. She gave her name as Miss Peggy Carter, Springfield, O. "Ed Bade, 71, of 1453 Woodlawn Ave. was cut over the left eye when he fell in the 1500 block Woodlawn Ave. A police cruiser, driven by Officer Michael Burns, was: struck by a trailer-truck which slid on the icy street at Ritter Ave. and Washington ‘St. The police car was parked at the curb. Police said the trailer was driven by. Clifford _ Hill, 35, Knightstown, Ind.
investigating
FORECAST: Unsettled, snow flurries and colder tonight; tomorrow Asartly cloudy to Slondys continued cold Friday and probably Saturday; lowest tonight shout zero.
ot 51—NUMBER 273
Dr. J. W. Putnam, Butler Preside
Tk MOURNS HIS DEATH AT 75
President in 1933-39, He Had Served University For 30 Years.
Dr. James W. Putnam, president emeritus of Butler University, is dead.
The noted educator, who was 75 on Jan. 18, died at 11:05 o'clock last night at the Methodist Hospital. He had been a patient since Dec. 28. The campus, where he was a familiar figure for 30 years, was in mourning today. Services will be held tomorrow at 10:30 ‘a. m. at the Central Christian church. Burial will be at Jacksonville, Ill. The Rev. William A. Shullenberger will officiate. Messages of sympathy to the family and university were received from scores of educators who were his friends and whom he visited frequently. Dr. Putnam was friend and counsellor to countless students through the years and liked ta call them by their first names.
Received Masters at Cornell He liked to talk of his travels and
Sending his ToT, Dr. Putnam was born at Mt. Sterling, 111, Jan. 18, 1865. He had lived in Indianapolis since joining the Butler faculty in 1909 as economics professor. His residence was at 327 Buckingham Drive. He was a graduate of Illinois College at Jacksonville, Ill, and later received a master’s degree at Cornell University and a doctor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin. It was while he was connected with Butler that “the greatest changes and advancements at the University were made, his colleagues say. They believe this was particularly true of his years as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and his vice presidency and presidency.
Dr. Robinson Pays Tribute
He was appointed dean and vice president in 1919 and acting president in 1933. He became president in 1935. Upon his resignation in April, 1939, he was succeeded as president by Dr. Daniel S. Robinson. Dr. Robinson today paid him this tribute: “Dr. Putnam’s passing so soon after his retirement as president of Butler University is a great shock to all of his colleagues and friends. “As his successor, it will be my constant endeavor to conserve for the university the many benefits that are due to his labors as professor, dean and president. Some of the advancements since 1919 at Butler under the aegis of - (Continued on Page Three)
FIRST TAIL LIGHT STICKERS ARE GIVEN
Undetermined Number Is Passed Out Last Night.
Although Chief Michael F. Morrissey said city-wide enforcement of the State tail lamp law would not be started until tonight, police didn’t wait, and issued an undetermined number of stickers last night. Deputy Inspector Edward P. Helm said orders to start enforcing this law were issued to last night's shift and a total of 25 sticker stubs were turned in early this morning. Others were expected to be turned in later in the day. State law requires all cars parked on the streets between an hour after sunset and. an hour before sunrise to have lighted tail lamps. Both traffic policemen and squad car patrolmen have been instructed to place stickers on lightless cars in b both residential and business discts. Enforcement of the all-night parking ban, which had been scheduled to start at 2 a. m. today, was postponed for 30 days by the Safety Board yesterday as a result of a flood of protests from motorists who complained they were unable to find garages.
S 0 S SENT BY TANKER
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (U. P.).— Mackay Radio reported that a distress call had been received at 2:05 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) today from the 7115-ton tanker Albert Hill, which reported that her steering gear was broken. Her position
was off Cape Henry, in the Atlantic. Coast Guard ships were sent out.
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1. Dr. James W. Putnam, president of Butler University, as he appeared at the 1935 commencement. 2. Alumni and members of the Butler faculty paid tribute to Dr. Putnam for 30 years of service at a dinner meeting last May. The public testimonial was held shortly after his resignation as president
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of the Fairview school. In the picture (left to right) are Hilton U. Brown, a member of the university board of trustees; Emsley W. Johnson, also a trustee; Dr. Putnam and Mrs. Putnam. 3. The educator is shown speaking at the dedication of Thomas Carr Howe School in September of 1938.
Studies ‘Lightning Action’ to
tion” to the problem of quick aid
WARSHIP 1S SUNK WTH 175 ABOARD
British Destroyer Exmouth [su
“1s722d" Victim of Nazi
Sea Operations.
LONDON, Jan. 24 (U. P)—A mine or a torpedo sank the 1475-ton British destroyer Exmouth in the North Sea and all its men—at least 175—were presumed to have been lost. The Exmouth, launched in July, 1934, was the 22d British war vessel to go down in the war. It was the fifth destroyer.
The $1,500,000 ‘vessel peace-time complement was 175 men, but it may have been increased. “It is feared there are no survivors,” the Admiralty said. “The next of kin have been informed.” No date was given on the sinking. Tie Exmouth was under the command of Capt. R. S. Benson, who received the Distinguished Service Order last December for his successful action against submarines. |Capt. Benson, who entered the Navy in 1905, served in the World War and commanded the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla in China waters from 1935 to 1937. The first destroyer to go down with all hands, the Exmouth was of the "Admiralty Type” of flotilla leaders similar to the Grenville, whose loss was announced over the week-end. British warships lost thus far include the Aircraft Carrier Courageous; the Battleship Royal Oak; the Destroyers Blanche, Gypsy, the armed merchant the submarines Starfish, Sea Horse and Udine. Several armed trawlers and patrol boats also have been sunk.
Germans Drop Bombs On Shetland Islands
LONDON, Jan. 24. (U. P.).—German’ planes dropped at least six bombs on the Shetland Islands today and were reported to have bombed a vessel at sea east of the islands. Explosions at sea were heard by persons on the islands after three German planes flew high overhead and one had dived on the port.
cruiser Rawal-|
Britain Prepared to Aid Belgium if Nazis Attack
Fulfill Locarno Treaty; Break
With Russia Carefully Considered.
LONDON, Jan. 24 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that Great Britain was giving “full atten-
to Belgium in event of a German
attack and that the question of breaking relations with Soviet Russia
requires “most careful consideration.” While avoiding any definite position on whether Britain should
severe diplomatic ties with Mdscow “in view of her unprovoked aggression in Finland,” the Prime Minister was explicit in regard to allied obligations to Belgium. Great Britain, and France as well, are bound by treaties and other pledges to go to the immediate assistance of Belgium if that country is attacked, he said, and the allied strategists have carefully studied
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"Italian Treaty Observed
In addition, Mr. Chamberlain disclosed, Great Britain and Italy have carried out their 1938 treaty agreement to exchange military information and further exchanges of aerial and naval information is expected this month. The Prime Minister said that the Government had surveyed the question of “how guarantees of all kinds can be implemented if the need should arise” in connection with the position of Belgium. Recently there were repeated reports in Allied sources of alleged plans for a German move against Belgium and Holland but these reports were strongly denied in ‘Berlin. ‘The British forces in France reportedly have been largely concentrated behind the Felgian Frontier,
where the Maginot Line has been.
extended toward the French. coast. Defenses Based on Canal
The Belgian main defenses are based on the Albert Canal, which is heavily fortified, and there has been much speculation whether in event of a Nazi thrust against Belgium the German armies could hope to move fast enough to beat Allied mechanized forces to this line. British sources have insisted that they could not. Because of Belgium's efforts to (Continued on Page Three)
STEELS, AEROS LEAD $2 RISE IN STOCKS
Steel and aircraft issues strengthened in securities trade today at New York to feature a broad recovery. ,Gains ranged to $2. Steel operations were reported holding well, but incoming orders remain light.. Bonds and curb stocks improved slightly. Cotton futures gained $1 a bale and wheat advanced at Chicago because of sub-zero temperatures in the Southwest. Indianapolis hogs sold 15 cents lower for weights under 240 pounds, 5 to 10 cents lower for those between 240 and 260. pounds and steady for heavier Weights. 5
River Ice Makes Road
Times Special CANNELTON, Ind. Jan. 24.— Miss Beairice Couch, a teacher in the Hawesvilie, Ky., schools, arose at her home here at the customary early hour yesterday morning. She ate breakfast, started her car and drove down to the Ohio River, where she is usually ferried across. But river ice, caused by the zero temperatures, had resulted in the suspension of the ferry service. Determined not to be deterred from her duty by the inclement weather, Miss Couch turned her car about and headed for Evans-
bridge there, went through Henderson, Ky., and then headed
back for Hawesville. She drove 130 miles before she
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ville. She crossed the Ohio River |
To School 130 Miles Long
finally parked in front of the Hawesville school, a few hours . late, but present.
Hill Gives Car Run-dAround Times Special MONTICELLO, Ind. Jan. 24— J. Edward Griffith of Monticello and the Carrollton Hill came to grips and Mr. Griffith came out second best. Mr. Griffith lost control of his car halfway down the icy hill. He turned into the Johnson place, shot 100 feet to the top of a side hill, slid backwards and stuck halfway down on the Johnson steps. The car’s momentum carried it down the steps and over a 15-foot embankment onto the main road. Mr. Griffith gave up at this point and Sumed the: “car into the side of the hil
AY, JANUARY 24, 1940
nt Emeritus. Dies
Entered as
at Postoffice,
Roosevelt Will Lose If He Runs Again, Miners Told.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 24 (U. P.)— President John L. Lewis predicted before delegates to his United Mine
| | Workers’ convention today that if
- | President Roosevelt were drafted for
: |a third term, he would go down to
“jgnominous defeat.” Mr. Lewis added that he doubted
‘| that Mr. Roosevelt would seek a
third term. Mr. Lewis said that political conditions made it “unwise, in my judgment, for this convention at this time to bestow its indorsement upon any candidate for the Presidency of the United States.” He recommended the International Executive d of the U. M. W. A. he empowered to indorse a nominee later.
“People Losing Confidence”
“I am one who believes that President Roosevelt will not be a candidate for re-election,” Mr. Lewis said. “Conceding that the Democratic convention = could be coerced or dragooned into renominating him, I am convinced that, with the conditions now confronting the nation
i land the dissatisfaction now pérme-
:- lating the minds of the people, his
ALLIES STIFFEN IN OIL INSPUTE
Hitler’ S Order. :
War in Brief
LONDON — German planes: bombs on Shetland Islands. HELSINKI — Finns report great Soviet offensive turned back third successive day. HONOLULU — Skipper of Japanese liner Tatutra Maru reports questioned at sea by unidentified vessel.
ROME—Italy blames French blockade for loss of life in burning of Liner Orazio.
ISTANBUL—Germany and Turkey conclude trade treaty.
CAIRO — Report - Iraq,
Reop
Iran and
Afghanistan negotiating military
alliance.
- LONDON, Jan. 24 (U. P,).—An allied dispute with Rumania over oil shipments to Germany-added a new complication today to a seri-
ous diplomatic situation which now involved countries, belligerent and neutral, over most of the world. Not only had Rumania, according to reliable reports, insisted that foreign oil companies operating. in Rumania provide their share of oil for. Germany but it was complained here that Rumania was withholding oil from the Allies, presumably at Germany’s demand. Britain was understood to’ have made firm representations to Rumania and to have added a clear intimation that permission for Rumania to obtain British products, including airplanes and other war materials, might depend on a solution of the oil question. In this, as in other urgent diplomatic problems, the basic question was the relation of belligerent nations to neutral ones, primarily in the light of the allied blockade against Germany. Developments included: 1.’ Britain was studying an American protest against detention of American merchant ships in the Mediterranean. 2. Britain was involved in a seri ous incident with Japan over the seizure of 21 German seamen of
military age from a Japanese liner}
only 35 miles off the Japanese Coast. 3. Neutral countries were showing strong resentment against a speech in which Winston Churchill, First (Continued on Page Three)
FUNDS TO BE SOUGHT | FOR DIES COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (U.P) — The Dies Committee will ask the House within a week for funds to continue its inquiry; acting ChairJan Joe Starnes (D. Ala), said toay The committee won a one-year extension of authority yesterday when
| the House voted 345 to 21 for its
continuance. Rep. Starnes said it had not been decided what amount to request. Other committee members said they did not expsct the group to ask for more than $100,000, possibly less.
‘The House voted it $100,000 last year
and $25,000 the year before. The amount probably" will be worked out in conferences between . Chairman
Martin Dies (D. Tex), ‘and House leaders.
inous defeat.”
candidacy would result in ignom-
Mr. Lewis declared that “labor and the people are losing confidence” because of the war abroad and because “the present Congress is without a program, except to enact necessary appropriations and ample time to engage in the national quadrennial political marathon.” He charged that the Democratic
people” because “affer seven years of power, it finds itself without solution of the major questions of unemployment, low national income, mounting internal debt, increasing direct and consumer taxation, and restricted foreign markets.”
Sees G. O. P. Trend in Indiana
Os said that Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New, Jersey and ork “are trending toward the aE column in the campaign
O. P. can be “prevented from winning only by an accord between the
1Democratic Party and organized
labor and the adoption of an intel-
written into the platform of the Democratic Party and placed before the American people as the issues of the election.” Mr. Lewis declared that organized labor “created the atmosphere of success” that led to Democratic victories in 1932 and 1936, and charged that the “Democratic Party and its leadership have not preserved this faith” with labor. “In the last three years, labor has not been given representation in the
or policy-making agencies of Government,” Mr. Lewis said in a prepared statement. “The current Administration has not sought nor seriously entertained (Continued on Page Three)
SENATORS OPEN WAY FOR LOAN TO FINNS
Specific Provision Made Against Arms Financing.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (U, P.).— The Senate Banking Committee today approved a $100,000,000 increase in the revolving fund of the Export-Import Bank—a fund which could be used to provide a nonmilitary loan to Finland. : A restriction approved by the Committee would limit any loan to Finland to $20,000,000 in addition to the $10,000,000 credit which has already been set up for her. The restriction provided that no borrower could have more than $30,000,000 credits at any one time, The committee placed in the bill a specific prohibition against loans for purchase of arms, ammunition and implements of war. The measure now goes to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Second- Class Matter Indianapolis, ’
Party “is in default to the American;
year of 1940” and declared that G..
ligent and rational program to be},
Cabinet, nor in the administrative’
, FINAL HOME
Ind.
PRICE THREE CENTS
WNUTT'S 1940 CHANCES UNAFFECTED BY LEWIS, WHO TURNS FIRE ONF.D.R.
‘Cruelest Job In the World’
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (U. P.).—Rep. Bruce Barton (R., N. Y.), in a speech last night before the United States Potters Association, said that the late Calvin Coolidge once described the Presidency as “the cruelest job in the world.” Rep. Barton said that in the fall of 1932, within 90 days of his death, Mr. Coolidge told an intimate friend: ; “I do not think this nation will ever have to be seriously. concerned over the third-term threat. I do not think the man lives who can go through two terms of that office and have anything left.” Saying “I suggest no comparison,” Rep. Barton added that “the present occupant of the White House enjoys magnificent health.” “It is entirely possible that he might achieve what Coolidge thought was beyond human capacity; he ‘might complete a third term. But even he, in his quiet moments alone, must be conscious of what a terrific hidden toll the Presidency exacts.”
RESURFACING OF SOUTH ST. 0. K.D
Property Owners Approve; Some Object to. Details of $90,000 Cost.
Property owners on South St. today approved resurfacing of the thoroughfare with reinforced concrete from Alabama St. to Kentucky Ave. at a total cost of $90,648. The approval was given at a Works . Board: Pn
the improvement, for which: they will pay 25 per cent of the total cost, or an average price of $3.19 a lineal foot. Several property owners, however, raised objections to details of the -improvement costs. Carl Dietz, representing Emil Dietz, owner of property. on the southwest corner of Alabama and South Sts., asked the board for an assessment reduction from 25 to 10 per cent for property owners between Alabama and Illinois Sts. He said this section of South St. had been improved twice since 1921 and property owners had borne the costs, while property owners living along other sections of the street had paid only for a single improvement. The Board took the request under advisement, deciding not to make a decision until the assessment roll for the improvement is prepared. Several property owners objected to the inclusion of a $50 item for advertising in connection with the improvement, which the Board decided to assess against them instead of against ‘Words Board funds. Board members this year decided to assess all advertising charges against property owners and will continue to follow that policy, they said.
2 KILLED, 2 HURT AS TRAIN HITS CAR
MUNCIE, Ind. Jan. 24 (U. P.).— Two persons were killed and two others injured last night when their car was strmick by a Big Four passenger train at Selma, six miles east of Muncie. Dead were Naomi Norton, 17, Selma, and Earland Tooley, 21, Muncie. Injured were Betty France, Selma, and Herbert Elton, Muncie. They are in a Muncie hospital. ‘The automobile drove across the tracks in front of the train and was struck broadside.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 24 (U. P.).—Randolph C. Lietzke of Zionsville, was killed yesterday when his automobile and a coal ° truck driven by Charles Hoffman of Lebanon, collided on State Road 32 east of here. Mr. Lietzke was 28. Clyde Gordon, 28, of Zionsville,
riding with Mr. Lietzke , received head injuries.
for further consideration.
EDGARTOWN, Mass, Jan. 24 (U. P.) —Capt. Byron C. Brown, retired Army officer, was adjudged guilty of drunkenness in District Court today although he said that he was “cold sober” last hight when he claims he heard a distress call from a ship sinking with 147 persons aboard. ‘Judge A.L.Braley released Brown in $200 bail and continued the case one week for disposition. Brown pleaded not guilty. In an interview in the warden’s office, after being brought from his cell at Edgartown jail, Brown said: “I had had nothing to drink—in fact there wasn’t a drop in the
h Hig A widespread search by Coast ‘Guard and naval craft of the icechoked waters of Vineyard: Sound whence the call supposedly came
had been called off early today|
‘after state police seized Brown.
Captain Goes Down With Ship That at Wasn ’t There
“I was listening in on the shortwave on my: home radio—as I do practically - every night — when
suddenly I picked up the distress call,” Brown said. “That was at 7:02 last night.
“My wife was in the house but she||
was out of the room so she didn’t hear the call, which was an indistinct voice. I called to her and
| told her about it. She. said, ‘youd | better report it.’
Then I called the coast guard.” ; Five Coast Guard boats and the destroyer Breckenridge were still searching Vineyard Sound at the time of his arrest. They had sped out late last night and the first of them to reach the scene, the Coast Guard Cutter General Greene, reported that the sea was calm, visihility unlimited and that no .ship or wreckage was in sight. Never(Continued on Page Three),
Hoosier’'s Fate Rests ‘With Roosevelt, Yet . Undecided.
The Political Situation ) WASHINGTON—McNutt’s chances neither bettered nor harmed by
John L. Lewis” ,attack before United Mine Workers.
WASHINGTON—McNutt “amazed” at attack, citing labor record ih defense.
COLUMBUS—Roosevelt will be Higa nominiously defeated” if he runs for third term, Lewis tells miners,
WASHINGTON—A. F. of L. Presie dent William Green hints broadly at Federation friendliness for Senator Burton K. Wheeler, :
By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Reports of the political death of candidate Paul V. Mc¢Nutt are premature— notwithstanding John L. Lewis’ effort at Columbus yesterday to kill off that Presidential aspirant. 'Mr. Lewis controls the United
| Mine Workers and the C. I. O., but
not the Demo cratic politic _ians. His polite ical influence recently has not been potent. He lost in Pennsylvania, where his . followers a re supposed to be strongest. And his White House influence has waned to that of just another caller. : When he tried to burst the thirde term ‘boom by. spiking the North
! Mr. Denny
‘ | west conference, the public polls
promptly showed an increase in third-term sentiment. When he cursed out Jack Garner, that aged politician miraculously took on an electoral glamour which had been lacking in a life-time of
A| Congressional conniving. majority of property owners favored Lr
Called. ‘Death Kiss’
And when Mr. Lewis hinted that ° Senator Burton K. Wheeler was his White House choice, many experi~ enced politicians and commentators called it the “kiss of death.” That, of course, is an exaggeraetion. He can control some votes, and therefore be of a little help to Senator Wheeler—unless, indeed, he ends by turning on Mr. Wheeler as he has turned on Mr. Roosevelt. But he cannot pick the Demo= cratic nominee. And he cannot veto Mr. McNutt if that handsome hopeful is finally agreed upon by the liberal Roosevelt and the conservae tive Garner as the best compromise candidate. The reason Mr. Lewis lacks political * prestige, and will fail to maneuver himself into a balance-of-power position in the Democratie convention, is that politicians don’t think he can deliver the C. I. O. vote—much less the labor vote. They think: Mr. Roosevelt has more influence with labor on election day than Mr, Lewis. So long as the President does not “take a walk,” they are not greatly cone cerned with what Mr. Lewis does.
Spread by Advisers To be sure, reports that Mr. Me«" Nutt was down were current before Mr. Lewis started kicking him. Those reports were spread by the ‘President’s New Deal advisers. i The story was very simple. ‘Here Ss: The President picked Mr. Mc» Nutt as his favorite. He gave him: the inside track of publicity and public favor as Federal Security Ad-: ministrator. But flashy Paul failed to show speed, he stumbled, the wise money began drifting away, and the President—learning that he was no - real New Dealer anyway—left him fall. That story isn't true. The President never picked Mr. McNutt as his successor, and has nat rejected him as such. What the President did was to name Mr. McNutt to a stra= tegic' post without even consulting : his New Deal advisers, who always have opposed the Hoosier. os
Taken Into F. D. R. Camp
The President had to take Mr, McNutt into camp to forestall a Mc-Nutt-Garner combine. That was smart politics. It was “especially clever because it gave the President control of Mr. McNutt without any compensating Presidential commit ments. And it was not so dumb on Mr, McNutt’s part either. Even though it was a long gamble to go into the Roosevelt camp without candidate
‘guarantees, he figured that was a
better gamble than staying outside, He guessed that Mr. Roosevelt would (Continued on Page Three)
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